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Blanis Benedetto <1580-1647, > |
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A Jew at the Medici Court : the letters of Benedetto Blanis, Hebreo (1615-1621) / / Edward Goldberg |
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Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011 |
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©2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (351 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jews - Italy - Florence |
Librarians - Italy - Florence |
Personal correspondence |
History |
Electronic books. |
Florence (Italy) History 17th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Printed in Canada. |
Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper with vegetable-based inks. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : the Blanis letters -- A note to readers -- The Blanis letters : a critical edition. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Edward Goldberg shares his sensational discovery of the largest body of surviving correspondence from any Jew in Early Modern Europe. Over the course of six years, Benedetto Blanis - a scholar and entrepreneur in the Florentine Ghetto - wrote nearly 200 letters to his princely patron Don Giovanni dei Medici. For the first time, these letters are available in a definitive critical edition - with full transcriptions in the original Italian, English language summaries, and explanatory notes. This book is a companion volume to Jews and Magic in Medici Florence, in which Goldberg narrates Blanis's startling rise and fall. Readers can now take a step closer and hear Blanis's compelling story in his own words - tracing his fraught relations with Jews and Christians, his desperate (and often illegal) business schemes, his disastrous |
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strategies for advancement at the Medici Court, and his pursuit of arcane knowledge, including astrology, alchemy, and Kabbalah."--Pub. desc. |
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